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PAOC POUR
THK JCPPCRSONIAN
AUGUST, IMt
PRODUCTS OF "DIVISIVE1 SCHOOLS GUT TOP
An Offering Was Not Paymenl
INDULGENCES
NOT FOR SALE
ed the giving, the poor peasant
who gave one penny got just the
si.me Indulgence as the lord who
gave a million. And both had to
have sorrow for sins and meet
The Catholic Church has nev- tbe other requirement..
icr sold an Indulgence. Charges j The Indulgence for St. Peter's
Sfj made by enemies of the Church: was no more sold than is the
that Indulgences were sold at [ Holy Sacrifice of the Mass when
the time of Father Luther are j the priest takes an offering for
not true. For the building of St. | praying for some special inten-
Peter's. then under construction tion. All the money in the world
iii Rome, the Pope asked all the cannot buy one Mass because the
faithful to give an alms to this
great project. Because this alms
was asked, Father Luther repre-
sented that the Indulgence was
being sold. But the official Cath-
olic Church document from Rome
promulgating the special grant
of the indulgence expressly ntat-| , , , _ „ . . . .
„ , , diligence in Germany might have
ed that the giver of an .-lms, in
order to gain an Indulgence, had
to receive the Sacramt/.ts of
Penance and Holy Eucharist and
Catholic Church won't accept a
single penny If anyone should
be so rash as to ask to buy It.
The Church has yet to sell
;*n Indulgence. Perhaps the way
in which Father Luther's rival,
Father Tetzel, preached the In-
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Independent schools which teach religion as well as secular subjects are a danger to our "demo-
cracy" and ure divlBive, the President of Harvard University, an independent school, told public
Hthool educators recently in Boston. The gentle man's inference, of course, was that there should
bo Just one school system, that of tho totalitarian State. This, so it happens, Is the culmination of
that unAmerlcan secularism which convinces its adherents that our nation should follow Stalin and
Hitler, who also allowed only State schools to ex 1st, and that in following these totalitarian types
of "democracy" that our U. S. Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom should be abolished.
At tbe time this totalitarian attack was made on parochial schools, these schools were quietly jjt
work setting up yet another proof of their solid Americanism and extraordinary high standards. In
the national essay contest sponsored by the President's Committee for the Physically Handicapped, a
Htudent of St Monica's Catholic High School, Sa. ta Monica, Calif., took first place. A student of
Cathedral High School, Lincoln, Neb. tied for second place, and a student of St. Joseph's Catholic
High School. Bay City, Mich., took third place. The winners are shown above being introduced to
President Truman by Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntyre, chairman of the meeting. Photo courtesy
ROCHESTER, N. Y, CATHOLIC COURIER.
pray for the intentions of the
Pope. The document in no way
mentioned any set material price
as being required to be paid or
that the said Indulgence was or
could be sold. The main require-
ments were the devout reception
of the Sacraments and the pray-
ers for the Pope. The almsgiv-
ing, one of the Christian virtues,
was secondary. An offering made
in sacrifice to help build a great
church for God could no more be
regarded -as a price for a spiri-
tual blessing such as an Indul-
gence is than offerings taken up
on Sun. at Protestant churches
caused the misunderstanding.
But the official Roman document
shows that no price was asked
or put on the Indulgence. The
offering involved in the Chris-
tian act of almsgiving, which
wag Just one of the requirements,
was to be given as offering not
as a payment.
Here and There—
(Continued from first page)
We have accepted the invita-
tion of Mr. F. Gordon 'O'Neill,
editor of "The Texas Catholic,"
our new diocesan paper, to be a
columnist on its staff. The new
weekly paper goes to press Sept.
can be regarded as being pay- 20th. Offices of the paper will
ment for the prayers of the min
ister, for sale to the highest bid-
der.
The offering given could vary
from a penny to a million. Since
the taking away of temporal
punishment remaining aifter sins
forgiven cannot be bought for
any amount of cash and since
this spiritual blessing was given
not for the money but for the
spirit of almsgiving which caus-
Converts Dying Before Baptism NotLost
CHURCH IN REASONABLE INTERPRETATION OF
BIBLE OK'S BAPTISM OF DESIRE AND DLOOD
In the 400'h the Emperor Val-
entinian II, who desired very
very much to be Ibaptized, died
whilst preparing for the great
event of his Catholic .Baptism.
St, Ambrose of Milan, the noted
bishop of that city, said of the
Emperor who had uied suddenly:
"I hear you express giie'i that ho
djid not receive the 'Sacrament of
Baptism. Tell me, what else is
there in us except the will and
petition? But lie lmd long desired
to be initiated 'before he came
to It;\ly, and expressed his inten-
tion to ibe ibaptized by me as
soon as possible. 11 a s he not,
therefore, the grace which he de
sited? Surely h(. received it be-
cause lie asked it/."
St. Ambrose, the great leader
who converted the famous St. j
Vugustine, 111 tills sermon gave
expression to the Catholic 'Church
teaching that for adults Baptism
of water is the ordinary means
of Baptism but that in case of
emergency, lluptisin of desire and
Baptism of blood will suffice.
The Emperor Vaientlnian II had
Baptism of desire, I. e., lie had
planned to he baptized and would
have been had lie not died suii-
ienly. Ambrose, with tho Catii-
lic Church, held/ that his desire
gave him the grace which ordin-
irily would have come in tho
Sacrament of Baptism.
ISt. Augustine, pupil of Am-
brose and early Church leader
Quoted frequently by Protestants,
expressed this same Catholic
teaching In these words: "I find
that not only suffering for the
name of Christ can supply the
defect of Baptism, but EVEN
faith and* conversion of heart, if
there ho NO TIME for celebrat-
ing the Sacrament."
People who shed their blood
for Christ without opportunity of
Baptism are also considered by
the Catholic Church to have at
tallied Heaven. This is called
Baptism of blood. It too was re-
garded by the early Fathers of
• ho Church as an equivalent for
liaptiPm of water. St. Augustine
writes: "To all thos > who die
confessing Christ, even though
f'toy have not received the l.iver
Cf regeneration, martyrdom will
j-rovo as effective tor the remis-
sion of sins, as If they were
washed at the Baptismal font."
The Catholic Church teaching,
held today as It was In the 5th
Century era of Saints Ambrose
and Augustine, is Ibased on a
common sense Interpretation of
Christ's teaching on Baptism
both as contained In the Sacred
Scripture andl in the Living Tra-
dition of the Apostles. Though
some would differ with the bril-
liant intellects of Ambrose and
Augustine and with the Catholic
'Church, few there are who when
they analyse thiB Catholic teach-
ing can find in it anything but
the most reasonable doctrine, j Being incapable of desire or of
Our common sense teaches usL voluntary martyrdom, they
that those who desire Baptism . . „ ,
....... .. cannot have Baptism of dlesire or
but die before they can get it as of ,blo(Kl. ,0nly aduItg are Me
well as those who shed| their of receiving the graces of Bap-
blood whilst preparing to be tism In this unusual manner.
be in the Commercial Building
in Dallas. We know that it will
be a big success. As a mem-
ber of the staff and as a pastor
in one of the parishes In which
it will be circulated we will
work with all our might to help
put it among the leading U. S.
Catholic papers. Our parish pa-
per, which will not be in the
same field with our diocesan or-
gan, will probably 'be reduced in
size or issued less often. Our
parochial instruction-information
program we do not want to aban-
don. Probably we will only re-
duce the time we give to It in
order to give this time to per-
fecting our column. The theme
of It will be the Divinity of Je-
sus Christ, the great stumbling
block in the acceptance of the
Church by moderns.
baptized will not he deprived of
Heaven by Christ, who under-
stands their situation.
Infants, the Church teaches,
mitftt be baptized with water.
Tn Tradition, the collection of
truths not in the (Bible (Our
and of desire is contained. Con-
cerning infants, this same Tra-
dition as well as Catholic Church
Lord said it wasn't all written Interpretation of the Scripture
down there), this teaching con- teaches no form of Baptism for
cerning adult Baptism of 'blood them except Baptism of water.
ANABAPTISTS
STARTED 1521
The first record of the Ana'
baptist sect is at Zwickau, in
1521. A certain Nicholas Storch,
who claimed to he a prophet sent
by God, selected 12 apostles and
70 disciples whom he ordained.
The group went to Wittenberg,
where they soon clashed with
Fr. Martin Luther, fallen away
Catholic priest, whom they
thought was too mild.
Storch, the leader of the group,
was one of a host of preachers,
all claiming to he inspired from
God, and agreeing in nothing
wave their opposition to the Cath-
olic Church. The Reformation
had opened the flood gates for
them.
.Rev. John Smyth, an Anglican
clergyman, who in 1602 fled to
Holland, was influenced by these
Anabaptists and founded the
modern Baptist Church. Upon
his death in 1612 Thomas Hel-
wys, leader of his followers, re-
turned to England and set up the
first Baptist church at Spital-
fielda, in London.
The IBaptist Church in the
United States was founfled by
j Roger Williams (1600-1683), who
also had ibeen an ordained min-
ister of the Anglican Church.
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There Is A Danger
Albuquerque, N. M. — The
"extreme distance to which the
pendulum has swung in the sep-
aration of church and State" Is
a danger. THE NEW MEXICAN
BAPTIST, published here, feels
it could have the effect of taking
the Bible and religion out of
our public life entirely.
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A NICE THOUGHT FROM
HONORABLE H. S. TRUMAN
"All success to your noble as-
pirations to uphold the torch of
truth in the dissemination of
iew3 through every state In the
union. It is particularly appro-
priate that your association,
w'.ioue mission is to spread the
RELATIVE OF FDR IS
CONVERTED TO FAI1
Buffalo, N. Y. — "Four cej
turies ago my ancestors made
mistake, and I am doing ever
thing I can to correct It," Rel
dj. A. Cleveland Shrigley, a col
sin of the late Franklin Roos|
velt, declared here on the occa
Ion of his entrance into tta
Catholic Church. 15 years a g j
the former Episcopalian was
dained a priest in an America
branch of the Eastern Orthoda
Church - the church which dat^
from the split from Rome
1054.
:0
SOLDIER ASKS
BROAD MINDS
Fort Hood, Tex. — X«t. Selvl
of the U. S. Army in a letter
THE DALLAS NEWS has aj
pealed for all Americans to dn
religious prejudices and to
'broadminded. Calling tho Vatlca
the "very center of the stronge^
influential force against Coil
munism in the world today," tl|
officer declared "the petting
and triviality of the trite phrai
'separation of Church and Stat
stands secondary to the moi
important fact — separation
good and evil."
Opposition to the Vatican t.T
bassador, he said, would end id
defeating its own purpose, un
vertsal freedom of religion,
making it easier for Communis^
to destroy religion.
—O
Catholics who apply ear plug
when certain Catholic moral do(j
trines are preached cannot appt
an effective conscience ph |
light of truth to the America
people, should adopt for Its gui(j
ance the noble sentiments froq
Colossians, 2, 4, 'So that no on
may deceive you with persuasiv
words.'" — Harry S. Trumaij
President of the United State^
to the Catholic Press Associi
tion.
NewDiocesanPapei
Finland, a Protestant land
with 4,000 Catholics, send|p an
envoy to the Vatican.
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THE TEXAS CATHOLIC,
TO MAKE DEBUT S00I
AMONG 437 JOURNi
Dallas— THE TEXAS CATH-
OLIC, new official organ of the
Diocese of Dallas, Is slated to go
to press here Sept. 20th. F. Gor-
don O'Neill, outstanding layman,
editor for 17 years of tho San
Francisco Monitor and until re-
cently editor of a slick financial
journal, has been working quiet-
ly for weeks on the many details
of laying the groundwork for the
new paper.
Official announcement that
the Dallas Diocese wou!d have
its first paper since the original
TEXAS CATHOLIC ceased pub-
lication with Bishop IBrennan's
transfer to Canada in 1892 came
an Associated Press release
Wed. Aug. 6th.
The news first hit print in the
chat column of the editor of THE
SOUTHWEST COURIER, official
Oklahoma Catholic paper, July
lOtty
A page-one column, "The
Shepherd Tells His Tale," will
be written by Bishop Gorman,
Coadjutor Bishop of Dallas since
February 8, 1952 and long-time
leader in U. S. Catholic Press
circles. Formerly editor of the
LOS ANGELES TIDINGS, Bish-
op Gorman is serving at present
as lEpiscopal chairman of the
Catholic Press. His new official
diocesan organ will bring to a
total of 438 the number of Catho-
lic journals in the country.
The name of the new paper
by coincidence is the same as
the pioneer paper started by
Bishop Brennan shortly after the
establishment of the Diocese of
Dallas by Pope Leo in 189.0.
to
A number of leaders of the Catholic Church In the United
States who attended the May 8th Installation of Bishop Gorman as
Coadjutor Bishop of Dallas are shown above on the steps of the
Cathedral after the ceremonies. Bishop Gorman, 21 years bishop of
Reno. Nevada. Is pictured behind Page Boy William Staff at the left.
Archbishop Robert E. Lucey of San Antonio, who Installed Bishop
Gorman in the name of the Holy see, is shown behind the other
Pago Boy, Frankle Glover. Members of the hierarchy present in-
eluded one bishop of the Chinese Catholic hierarchy thrown out of
that country by the Reds last fall. Photo, courtesy of THE DALLAS
NEWS.
It Ans't Fair
Some 55 cents out of each dol-
lar spent for legitimate distilled
whiskey goes to the tax collec-
tors; With a similar tax. a $2,000
automobile would cost the buyer
$4,444. Those engaged in the
whiskey business feel that this
is an unjust tax.
Abe Was Broad
90 years ago on April 7th Pres-
ident Abraham Lincoln, a broad-
minded man, appointed Alexand-
er W. Randell as United States
minister to Pius IX, head of the
Vatican state. And Lincoln is re-
garded as one of our two great-
est Presidents^
"Those who are nourished by
the belief In Christ, Who is Love,
c.snnot hold in contempt, hate, or
be hostile to their own. They
can never break their unity be-
cause of mere difference of color
eyes, hair or skin, because of flag
or blood." — Francis Cardinal
Spellman. speaking in 'Spanish
at the International Eucharlstic
Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
It OK's Adultery
Dallas — The movie, "David
and Bathsheba," "glamorizes ad
ultery and makes heroes out of
the participants," notes ti writer
to THE NEWS.
Declared the writer, a Protes-
tant In sympathy with the Catho-
lic Legion of Decency's ideas:
"It akes one of the most sordid
episodes in Bible history of ad-
ultery and murder and raises It
to the level of pure romantic
love."
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